The Authentic Gilbert & Sullivan Songbook

Contents
Plot Summaries
THESPIS; OR, THE GODS GROWN OLD 
"Little maid of Arcadee"
TRIAL BY JURY 
"When first my old, old love I knew"
"When I, good friends, was call'd to the bar"
"With a sense of deep emotion"
"O gentlemen, listen I pray"
THE SORCERER 
"Time was, when Love and I"
"Welcome joy! adieu to sadness!"
"My name is John Wellington Wells"
"Dear friends, take pity on my lot"
H.M.S. PINAFORE; OR, THE LASS THAT LOVED A SAILOR 
"We sail the ocean blue"
"I'm called little Buttercup"
"A maiden fair to see"
"I am the captain of the Pinafore"
"I am the monarch of the sea"
"When I was a lad"
"Never mind the why and wherefore"
"He is an Englishman!"
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE; OR, THE SLAVE OF DUTY 
"Oh, better far to live and die"
"Poor wand'ring one"
"I am the very model of a modern Major-General"
"When the foeman bares his steel"
"When you had left our pirate fold"
"When a felon's not engaged in his employment"
"With cat-like tread"
PATIENCE; OR, BUNTHORNE'S BRIDE 
"I cannot tell what this love may be"
"If you want a receipt"
"Am I alone, And unobserved?"
"Prithee, pretty maiden"
"Sad is that woman's lot"
"A magnet hung in a hardware shop"
"So go to him"
"When I go out of door"
IOLANTHE; OR, THE PEER AND THE PERI 
"Tripping hither, tripping thither"
"Loudly let the trumpet bray" (March of the Peers)
"The Law is the true embodiment"
"Spurn not the nobly born"
"When I went to the Bar"
"When all night long a chap remains"
"When Britain really rul'd the waves"
"Oh, foolish fay"
"Love, unrequited" (Nightmare song)
"If you go in"
PRINCESS IDA; OR, CASTLE ADAMANT 
"If you give me your attention"
"Expressive glances"
"I am a maiden"
"A Lady fair"
"Would you know the kind of maid"
"Whene'er I spoke"
"This helmet, I suppose"
THE MIKADO; OR, THE TOWN OF TITIPU 
"A wand'ring minstrel I"
"Behold the Lord High Executioner!"
"As some day it may happen"
"Three little maids"
"So please you, Sir"
"For he's going to marry Yum-Yum"
"The sun, whose rays"
"Brightly dawns our wedding day"
"Here's a how-de-do"
"Miya sarna"
"A more humane Mikado"
"The Bowers that bloom in the spring"
"Alone, and yet alive!"
"On a tree by a river" (Titwillow)
"There is beauty in the bellow of the blast"
RUDDIGORE; OR, THE WITCH'S CURSE 
"If somebody there chanced to be"
"I shipped, d'ye see" and Hornpipe
"My boy, you may take it from me"
"Cheerily carols the lark over the cot"
"When the night wind howls"
"I once was a very abandoned person"
"My eyes are fully open"
THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD; OR, THE MERRYMAN AND HIS MAID 
"When maiden loves"
"Is life a boon?"
"I have a song to sing, O!"
"I've jibe and joke"
"Were I thy bride"
"Oh! a private buffoon"
"Strange adventure!"
"A man who would woo a fair maid"
"When a wooer Goes a-wooing"
THE GONDOLIERS; OR, THE KING OF BARATARIA 
"We're called gondolieri"
"In enterprise of martial kind"
"I stole the Prince"
"When a merry maiden marries"
"Then one of us will be a Queen"
"Take a pair of sparkling eyes"
"Dance a cachucha"
"There lived a King"
"I am a courtier grave and serious"
UTOPIA, LIMITED; OR, THE FLOWERS OF PROGRESS 
"In ev'ry mental lore"
"Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses"
THE GRAND DUKE; OR, THE STATUTORY DUEL 
"So ends my dream"